THE DALMATIAN DOG. 



Generic Characters. 

 Six cutting and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Five toes before ; four behind. 

 Viiage long. 



Synonim. 



Le Braque de Bengal, de Buffbn-, tab. xxxiv. 



THIS is, perhaps, the molt elegant and beautiful variety of the Dog. 

 It is generally called the Danifh Dog, although it is difficult to fay how it 

 came by that appellation, as Mr. Pennant feems to think Dalmatia is its native 

 country. Some, indeed, are found in India, but they are generally fmall, 

 and very ugly ; and thofe which are bred in Europe, if carried to India, 

 immediately degenerate, in common with all other Dogs. 



The Dalmatian Dog is, at prefent, very common in England, where the 

 breed is carefully preferved from mixture. It keeps up to its lize and figure, 

 and is held in high eftimation, both for its elegant lhape, and for the 

 beautiful fpots with which it is adorned, which vary in every individual. 

 It is now univerfally received as a fafhionable and genteel attendant on a 

 carriage, which feems to be the only ufe made of it. It is certainly a very 

 innocent article of luxury; but we cannot help remonltrating againli the 

 cruelty and prefumption of cutting off the poor animal's ears, from an idea, 

 that its beauty is thereby increafed : as if we knew how to form the creature' 

 better than the great Creator himfelf ! 



It is remarked, that thofe animals, which bring forth many young ones 

 at a birth, do not produce them fo perfect as thofe which bring but one or 



